Location of approx. 16 000 of deaths (0,87% of all observations) was unidentified and excluded from analysis. These cases have not been assigned to any Polish deaths’ reporting body as well as not matched with any record in a domestic healthcare services database (2009-2019).
No. of forecasted deaths have been taken from 2016’s GUS estimation (Statistics Poland). % difference of deaths have been calculated with the following formula:
GUS’ estimations have been weighted with a share of deaths in the corresponding period (January - May) of the last four years.